Warner Bros. has added yet another movie to its expansive LEGO franchise, with writers Jason Segel (The Muppets) and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) signing on to write the script and co-direct a new project entitled The Billion Brick Race. This project will be the fourth to be spawned from last year's blockbuster The Lego Movie. Warner Bros. is currently working on Ninjago (September 23, 2016), The LEGO Batman Movie (May 26, 2017) and The Lego Movie Sequel slated for release sometime in 2018.

No specific details were given, but the story is based on an original idea that Drew Pearce came up with, which "excited the studio," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Billion Brick Race will be both Jason Segel and Drew Pearce's directorial debuts, although no release date was given at this time. Since Warner Bros. currently has LEGO movies planned until 2018, it's certainly possible they could be aiming for a 2019 release, but that has yet to be confirmed.

The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller will produce alongside Roy Lee and Dan Lin, with Courtenay Valenti overseeing the project for Warner Bros. While Jason Segel is best known as an actor, he has also co-written the scripts for comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, The Muppets, The Five-Year Engagement and Sex Tape, all with Nick Stoller. Drew Pearce co-wrote Iron Man 3 with director Shane Black and the upcoming Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. He also wrote and directed Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King.

The Billion Brick Race is in development and stars Jason Segel. The film is directed by Jason Segel, Drew Pearce.

One of the numerous special features attached to the Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD release of Thor: The Dark World, is the latest Marvel short film, Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King. Last night, I headed down to the Arclight Hollywood for a screening of this short, which features Ben Kingsley reprising his Iron Man 3 role as Trevor Slattery, the British actor who tricked the world into thinking he was a dangerous terrorist known as The Mandarin. These shorts have become big hits with the fans, but All Hail the King is by far the biggest one yet, that you surely won't want to miss.

The 15-minute short opens with Jackson Norris (Scoot McNairy) a documentary filmmaker who arrives at Seagate Prison for his final interview with Trevor Slattery, as he tries to figure out who, exactly, this mysterious man really is. However, before the interview itself, we see how playing the Mandarin truly has become this failed actor's "big break." He is the closest thing to an A-list celebrity among the inmates, with his own bodyguard/doting assistant Herman (Lester Speight) and a growing legion of fans.

While I don't want to spoil a lot else, I'll just say that we also see footage of Trevor's failed CBS pilot Caged Heat (where Trevor plays a Russian cop in the U.S.), and learn about his family history. And finally, make sure you stay until the end for a very special surprise that I doubt anyone will see coming. It's also worth noting that Iron Man 3 composer Brian Tyler crafted another wonderful score for this short, but, for the Caged Vice scenes, they actually brought on 1980s TV music icon Mike Post to create a real a real score for a fake show.

After the screening, Ben Kingsley, producer and Marvel architect Kevin Feige and Drew Pearce, who co-wrote Iron Man 3 with Shane Black and wrote and directed All Hail the King, sat down for a Q&A session moderated by Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican, who expanded on the creative process of crafting the story for this short, how they were able to get Ben Kingsley to come back, Marvel's overall approach to their One-Shot shorts, and a shitload more.

"This one started because Shane Black, myself, Kevin and (executive producer) Louis D'Esposito, we were all at lunch on the very first day with Sir Ben, in North Carolina shooting Iron Man 3. We were just talking over lunch, and Kevin and I turned to each other and said, 'We should definitely try to do a Trevor Slattery One-Shot.' Trevor is an interesting character. He's like a cockroach in the apocalypse. He can survive drafts of scripts, re-shoots, the Mandarin. Originally, it was going to be a prequel, and there was a lot of stuff that came up when we were filming. We wanted to keep Trevor Slattery around in this universe for longer, so this is a great way of tapping into that."

In Iron Man 3, we only got to see the true Trevor Slattery for a brief amount of time, but this short gives us more insight into this bizarre thespian's "process," showing the voice exercises he does even before a simple on-camera interview. When asked if there were any colleagues of his that inspired the quirky nature of "the toast of Croydon," Ben Kingsley said there were a few real-life influences, although he wouldn't name any specific names.

"Well, he was so brilliantly conceived by Kevin and Drew, but he's not actually as two-dimensional as one might suspect. You can dig and dig and dig into a character that's so well-written. He's a great survivor, and his arrogance and narcissism, the bubble that he lives in, is part of his survival, as an actor who could have had a mediocre career, ends up having a spectacular but odd career. He's an amalgam of actors that I worked with all over North England, in the Royal Shakespeare Company, actors who I drank with at the pub afterwards, who would go on and on and on about where they were going to go, playing King Lear in Croydon, so it's a salute to the struggling actor, who is given an enormous break. He's propelled into infamy, but he's rooted in reality."

This is the fifth straight One-Shot short that has been featured on the Blu-ray/DVD releases of Marvel movies, following Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant, Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer, Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 and Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, but, according to Kevin Feige, Marvel does not have a mandate that each feature demands a One-Shot be attached to it.

"No, not necessarily. We do them as they come up, frankly, fun ideas that are worthy of coming out on a weeknight and seeing on a big screen. It's really about what's the idea. It's not about, 'Oh, we've got to add another feature onto a Blu-ray.' It's an added bonus when you have a good idea, you have someone like Drew, and you have someone like Sir Ben Kingsley to appear in your short. That doesn't happen all the time."

Ben Kingsley also admitted that this was the first time he has ever appeared in a short film in a career that has spanned nearly 40 years, while praising the efforts of the crew.

"The crew was as thorough and as on the ball as there would be if we were making a 90-minute feature. It was an amazing crew, the level of focus and concentration was immaculate. It was a big piece. It lasts 15 minutes, but it was a big piece."

While Drew Pearce admitted he was both "proud and ashamed of" the fact that this was Ben Kingsley's first short film, he also added that none of those crew members were on board until the actor signed on.

"Oddly, none of the crew was on board until Sir Ben Kingsley came on, strangely enough. It is quite weird to have followed up the biggest movie of all time with a small, studio film, but obviously an honor as well."

Part of this shoot involved shooting scenes for Trevor's failed CBS pilot entitled Caged Heat, a Miami Vice-esque cop drama where Trevor played a cop who was born in Russia before moving to the U.S., fighting crime in a cherry-red Ferrari, with he help of a tequila-swigging monkey, played of course by Crystal the Monkey from The Hangover trilogy and NBC's Community. While it all sounds rather over-the-top for just a few seconds worth of footage in the short, Kevin Feige said he wanted Drew Pearce to go as far as he could.

"No, we wanted to go off. The whole purpose of Trevor is to go off the rails. I think it was in the script that you just see a screenshot of it, or something. We said, 'You have three days. Do a full title sequence.'"

As I mentioned before, Mike Post, who composed the themes for hit 1980s shows such as The A-Team, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues, Hunter and Quantum Leap, created an original theme for Caged Heat that worked so incredibly well. Drew Pearce shared how they ended up bringing him on board.

"We called him up, because we thought, if he has something authentic in the vaults, then we'll ask him if he's got it. I got to speak to him and I said, 'So what we're after, if you could just look in your vaults and find something like a Russian Magnum P.I. theme, one of those?' He said, 'Two things. First of all, no, I don't have a Russian Magnum theme. Secondly, I don't have any vaults, because I sold every single piece of music I've ever written in my life.' So, he said, 'What if I just make it for you?' And that was absolutely amazing. He got all of his old 80s equipment out of the storage unit, and it was amazing."

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As the Q&A was winding down, Kevin Feige was asked if he could say anything about Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The bad news was, he didn't say anything about the sequel. The good news was, he had a surprise in store for the fans, the first 10 minutes of the movie, which you can read about in detail if you clickHere.

Iron Man 3 scribe Drew Pearce recently sat down with SciFiNow and expressed his excitement about Marvel's upcoming Phase 2. He also discussed the possibility of a crossover/shared universes project at DC.

Here he talks about the next wave of projects coming from Marvel and if he is going to be involved.

"This next phase has such a good bunch of directors, from the Russos, who by all accounts have knocked it out the park with Captain America 2 - I've seldom heard buzz from the editing room as good as that movie. The Avengers 2 will be Joss Whedon's baby, and reaction to James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy has been brilliant. Even after the tough journey of two and half years making Iron Man 3 as good as it can be, I don't just have respect for Marvel as unit; I'm honored for my time there, and I'm constantly talking to them about what we do next."

He goes on to discuss the possibility of DC following the same model as Marvel.

"There's a lot of talk about whether Warner are following the Marvel model, but I think they're just following The Dark Knight model and using to branch out, character by character. It's a smart move that they're not trying to do Justice League and they're going to bring Batman and Superman together their next movie instead. I think DC are still doing their thing, I don't think it's particularly derivative of Marvel. There's definitely more of a sense of 'Marvel Studios did this well, maybe we should take care to join up our part of the the Marvel universe' at Fox. It's trickier because they're not coming from as clear a place as Marvel was, because they already have a bunch of continuity issues, though I'm sure X-Men: Days of Future Past is going to clean that up. I'm sure in Fantastic Four there will be a sense that it's the same world as the mutants exist in."

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol brought in $700 million worldwide. The entire franchise has earned over $2 billion dollars in it's history. Production will begin after Tom Cruise wraps up The Man from U.N.C.L.E. this fall.

Andrea Blaugrund directed the original documentary, which followed a group of aging punk rockers as they transitioned into parenthood. Jason Segel will star as one such dad. And while the documentary featured plenty of high profile rockers, including Art Alexakis, Flea, and Lars Frederiksen, it is unclear if they will return for cameos, but it is very likely.

There is no production start date set for The Other F Word's comedy adaptation.

The Other F Word was released November 2nd, 2011 and stars Tony Adolescent, Art Alexakis, Rob Chaos, Chris De Wolfe, Joe Escalante, Flea, Lars Frederiksen, Josh Freese. The film is directed by Andrea Blaugrund.

Last month, we reported that Warner Bros. slated Godzilla for release on May 16, 2014. Today, we have word that the studio has brought on Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce to polish the script.

Dave Callaham (The Expendables) wrote the original draft, which was subsequently reworked by David S. Goyer and, most recently by Max Borenstein, who took over the scripting duties in November. Drew Pearce will work on the script for four weeks, although it won't be a major overhaul. It is said that the scribe will primarily be aging up the characters, to match up with the actors the studio would like to cast.

Gareth Edwards (Monsters) will direct, with Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, and Brian Rogers producing. No production schedule has been released yet.

Paramount Pictures has hired Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce to draft another superhero tale, The Mighty. We reported last month that the studio acquired the rights to the graphic novel, which was created by Keith Champagne and Peter Tomasi. Take a look at a description of the graphic novel below from our report last month.

"The Mighty tells the story of Alpha-One, the world's most powerful super-being, who has always been a force for good, but Gabriel Cole, a cop who's life was saved by Alpha One as a child, has uncovered his hero's dark plan that will put them on a collision course of an ordinary man versus a super-man."

Mary Parent and Cale Boyter will produce The Mighty through their Disruption Entertainment banner, along with Benderspink's Chris Bender and J.C. Spink.

In late March, Marvel Studios anounced that Drew Pearce was coming on to write Iron Man 3, with new director Shane Black closely overseeing this first draft. Sources today claim that Black will actually be co-writing the screenplay with Pearce.

Shane Black made his directorial debut with 2005's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, but is best known for his screenplay work throughout the 80s, having created the films Lethal Weapon, The Monster Squad, and The Last Boy Scout. The majority of Iron Man 3's storyline is being created by Shane Black, with intent for it to be a mystery thriller with real life villains.

It is believed that Drew Pearce was brought in to curb Shane Black's notoriously R rated writing style, as Walt Disney Pictures wants to keep the film family friendly. Others claim that is false.

It was thought for a while that new Iron Man 3 director Shane Black might also write the screenplay for this upcoming Marvel sequel. But Marvel Studios has now hired Drew Pearce to pen the further adventures of Tony Stark.

Robert Downey Jr. is set to reprise his role as Tony Stark sometime after he shoots The Avengers. No story details have been released at this time. Drew Pearce was hired to write the sequel after penning the latest draft of Runaways for Marvel, which centers on a group of super powered teenagers who discover their parents are evil villains.

Drew Pearce will work closely with Shane Black in concocting this next tale. Marvel is saying that the story will be written from scratch, hinting that it is a "reboot". So, now they are rebooting another series that people like while they are in the midst of their franchise. Does this make sense to anyone else?

Marvel Studios has set writer Drew Pearce to draft the script for Runaways, a sci-fi action film based on the cult favorite comic book by Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan about the children of supervillains who try to use their evil powers for heroic purposes.

Runaways follows a group of teenagers who find that some family secrets are bigger than others when they discover their parents are actually super-villains. Running away from their homes, the teens band together and begin a journey of discovery, both of their parents' origins and of their own inherited powers, while trying to make up for the evil done by their folks.